Hebrew Literature Part 68

508 Prov. iii. 35.

509 Prov. iv. 2.

510 Esther ii. 22.

511 Prov. iv. 22.

512 Prov. iii. 8.

513 Prov. iii. 18.

514 Prov. i. 9.

515 Prov. iv. 9.

516 Prov. iii. 16.

517 Prov. iii. 2.

518 Prov. xvi. 31.

519 Prov. xvii. 6.

520 Isa. xxiv. 23.

521 Prov. vi. 22.

522 Ps. cxix. 72.

523 Hag. ii. 8.

524 Prov. viii. 22.

525 Isa. lxvi. 1.

526 Ps. civ. 24.

527 Gen. xiv. 19.

528 Exod. xv. 16.

529 Ps. xvi. 3.

530 Exod. xv. 17.

531 Ps. lxxviii. 54.

532 Isa. xliii. 7.

533 Isa. xlii. 21.

534 See the treatise on "Measurements," chap. i.

535 Membranes over the fat.

536 In the form of an apple.

537 A cor was equal, according to the Rabbis, to 44.286 gallons, but Josephus reckons it to have been 86.696 gallons.

538 A seah, according to the Rabbis, was 1.4762 gallon.

539 Or, of "the treasurers."

540 In this chamber were kept the "seals" or "tokens" given to those persons who bought their offerings from the Levites. These "seals"

were of four sorts, and were respectively inscribed with "calf" or "kid," according to the offerings to be presented; and with the word "male" when the offering was to be a ram; and "sinner" when it was to be a sin-offering.

541 Others read "a basket."

542 Or jug.

543 Ezek. xliv. 2.

544 Jericho is about eighteen miles distant from Jerusalem.

545 Perhaps "a gong" or "a bell." Some think it to have been a "musical instrument," and others consider it to have been "an organ."

546 Some think "Machaerus" on the east of the Dead Sea, about fifty miles distant from Jerusalem.

547 In each act of sprinkling, the priest, standing before a corner, sprinkled the blood on two sides of the altar. And thus, in two acts of sprinkling, he put the blood on its four sides.

548 Called the Shema. It consisted of the following three pa.s.sages of Scripture, as given in the next footnotes.

549 Deut. vi. 4-9.

550 Deut. xi. 13-21.

551 Num. xv. 37-41.

552 The lot for the incense was always arranged for a new man who had never burned it before. It might come to a priest once in his lifetime, and never again afterward. Luke i. 9.

553 The chambers for vestments had separate rooms for each of the twenty-four courses, and separate wardrobes for each of the four kinds of vestments.

554 About 37-1/2 gallons.

555 See note 5, chap. iii. 8.

556 The Delegates were appointed to represent the whole congregation of Israel in the temple services.

557 Jehovah.